The Sun. — London, England, 1818-01-14 00:00:00

THE C`,OIUNTRY. cln hardly present to our Readers a more strildng proof of the utilify of the plan which we prLinally devised, and which remains a peculiar fea!llte in TFt SuN, of transferring to our columns the observations contained in the PRovniclAL The following Remarks on the Meet i og'which was held on the 31 at nit, at the City of London Tavern, to celebrate the Third Centenary of THE REFORMATION. we have taken from a Paper to which we have often been obliged; and we may venture to say, that for historical infor mcion, knowledge of the subject, and profound philosophical spirit, as well as just reflections on the nature and tendency of the Meeting in ques tion, there are very few Conductors of Public Journals that could, have written such an article, or that can be compared with the able Editor to 3 ,, URNALS. whom we are indebted on the present occasion. At the same ti,me we may be allowed to say, that Trig SUN was the only paper that expressed, on the day after the Meeting, its decided disappro betion of the whole proceedings. We emphati cally condemned the Meeting of the Members of a Sacred Function in Taverns, es well as of many of the sentiments delivered on the occasion, and avowed our dissent from the opinion of a Morn ing Paper, which expressed its regret that the Clergy of the Church of England were not present in greater numbers. We rather regret that any of the regular Clergy were present. With respect to the ROYAL CtIAIRMAN, we are inclined to con sider his attendance as the result of a condescend ing disposition to oblige;and the effect of an im portunity too pressing to be resisted by such a dispositio:i, often as he is assailed by those who want t:, force theniselves into popularity through the medium of liis'lloyal Hi g hn e ss (Front The (Dublin) Correspondent of the S'h inst.) 111 Germany, proper respect and homage were paid to an event to which Reason, Civil Li berty, awl Religion, are so peculiarly. indebted ; and the Secular Celebration of the Reformation was observed by Ow. spontaneous honours and ceremonies of all ranks aad classes - belonging to t [regrew German Cities. Even in Rome thanks were put tip from the Altar of the Lutheran Chapel, for the blessings showered down upon the Christian World by this transeendant event. " I does not strike us that there was tnnch of. celebration, in any sense in which it is usually understood, in what took place at the. City of London Tavern on Wednesday last. The place was unsuit able for solemnity, and the circum stances which occurred do not appear to us to be Happily conceived for doing due honour to the n e r w • ffla tio n , and to its effects upon society. Se veral of the sentiments delivered by the movers of tlte Resohnions were very abstracted, and were not manifestly connected with those causes which led to the Reformation, nor with those consequences which followed front it, and which have so powerfully influenced the form as well as the spirit of society in Europe. Many of the pro positions, it undeniable in the abstract,. must still be liable to limited modifications, when brought into operation among human bellies, living. under laws and covenants ; and others of them seem to have been assumed as disputed propositions, and to have b een assumed invidiously, although they ne v e r were contested. No man ever yet main tained that .Religion was matte for a class or a Orty—on the contrary, neither doctrines nor ef forts have been spared to invite persons of all "classes and parties to participate in that religious communion, which r»en believe to. be in the closest conformity With the practice of Apostoli cal times, arse) with the construction of the Holy Serif - tures. .‘ After all that has been said on the subj ec t by many Reverend Gentlemen, who,delivered their sentiments with straight-forward zeal, there is very little to he found which casts any just or Ste:l,ly light upon the grand benefits conferred by ti le itel,,rmation. There is no luminous intlue- lion upon this subject very obvious in the speeches that were made : nor is there to be found in the Resolutions which grew out of them tiny strong evidence that the framers of the latter possessed the soundest judgment upou,t he great event which they ptolessed to.celehrate. The spirit of dissent to the Liturgy of the Church of England appears to have been predominantly united with several principles which received the sanction of the Meeting ; and, indeed, it is to be almost taken for granted', that very•feri members of the Esta bli•lieil Religion could have been present, where much kVaSaVOWed to which they cord(' not give their assent. ills Royel Highness the Duke of Sn,sex was appc,inted to take the Chair, which he accordingly filled. "His Royal Highness's, Speech mist be very Imperfectly related in the English Newspapers; for the tenor of it, as it is reported, says little for the Reformation, and a great deal f ibula topics not ver— y closely connected with it.— We do not mean by Reformation, the nnphiloso- pl,ic a l idea of the Violence committed at a spe cific period ; and by whi . ch things were rather cast tort ii eruptively, than allowed to develope tin mselves in easy maturity : we mean the spirit which agitated English Society—which dictated the Councils of Clarendon, and which cannot well be felt or understood, except by close who examine as it were into the very bo‘t els of our Eu' g liAr History. The Reformation is in one re ap< ct to he con,idered as an effect—and in another, s all grand and stationary effects must become in their turn, a cause. When reason and genius, invigorated by learning and knowledge, burst through the trammels and restraints of ignorance and superstition, the Reformation rose : but it %. as necessary to nurse Civil Liberty in its cradle, that.. as it gtew, their essential affinity should be esta hlkhed for ever. All the ;Kings of Europe, when they would trample upon their own laws and the people's rights, were sure to find a strenuous silly in such designs in the Rom,n pontiff, who rested much or hiS own influence and importance upon tire. interference which Monarchs required from him with their subjects. The sepalatiou from Rome, Hod her extreme itifluen.ce, first, settled the Civil --:Liberty of England upon its present foondations. Before that grand event, Laws and Charters, with what ceremonies they may be enacted or granted, were little better to the people than waste paper—an:l since, not only hare the tuen►hers of the Reformed Church en joyed a share of Civil Liberty unknown before, but those who continued stedfaSt in the faith of the Church of Rome have had their more circum scribed reforms also, and have had a taste excited for that fteedom which was derivative from the Grand Reformation, and which their forefathers so vehemently resisted. With every desire to respect the Royal Personage who presided at the Meet ing to which allusion has been made, we cannot thi►;k it wise of him to make common conversa- thm of so deep and serious a subject as the esta blishment of the present Illustrious Dynasty On the 'I of Great Britain aiid JrchAnd. Thi's establishment is not a tietv thiog, to he referred, for its ricl►is or for its propriety, ro certain loos e principles, such as serve sometimes to recommend the lovers of popularity to those who do not re flect much. We like to see things sacred and so lemn suffered to test, undisturbed by officious meddling ; and we question very much, whether the inteiests of ►he Sovereign arid the People. are hest consulted when subjects of this sort are at tempted to lie made familiar by inconsiderable ex planations, or to be illustrated by fanciful cor►l - or bargains, tvi;ieli are, very often, apt to be too literally understood. We hope we may be permitted to clotlbt the accuracy wit►r which that part of hi s Roy a l Highness's speech is reported, in which he is intimated to have bestowed his praise upon the , recent acquittals of. Mr. Hone— we should holie this, even if it were far no other reason, than the radical discordance between any thing connected with that circu►nstance, and the celebration of the Reformation." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN, 13. Before Mr. Justice troLuoyn and Special Juries. BURTHORP AND COSTER V. LUFFNON. This-was an action nn on a Policy of Insurance, brought by the plaintiff's, who are agents acting for two Portuguese mvrchants, Antonio JOSeVaS cmlcellas and Francisco Bexoto, residing at St. MichaePs„against the defendant, an Underwriter. Tl.e policy was cifected on the 31st Jan. 1812, upon the ship. May de Dios, *Ton the round voy age at and from St. Michael's to Pernambuco, bring 20001. upon the vesyel, rind 15001. upon the cargo, at 6 percent. - Of this insurance, theseim of 2001. was ensured by the present defendant. The plaintiff's recovered the whole sum. THE KING V. THE INHABITANTS OF , THE COUNTY OF MLDDLFSEX. This was an indictment against the Inhabitants of the County of Middlesex, coiling upon them to repair a certain [midge called Brent Bridge, at the stone on the Edgware-road, one quarter of which is in the parish of Wilsden, and the other three-quarters in the parish of Hendon. Mr. AlAltliYAT, on the part of the prosecution, stated, and subsequently proved in evidence, tha't for a considerable time the bridge had been out of repair, and that many serious accidents had been occasioned by it. Under such circumstances, un less it could be proved that the burden of repair ing the bridge was prescriptively laid upon some particular individual, the inhabitants of the comity were bound to answer for the reparation. Mr. Go IttslY, for the defendants, admitted, that .with regard to the parish of Wilsden, he could bring no proof to tht ow the burden from the county; but with respect to the parish of Hen don, he could prove both the negative and the af firmative, not only that the county never had repaired it, but that the Lind .of the Manor of Hendon had at his own expense repaired the bridge. Mr. Stirling, who had been clerk of.the peace for the county of Middlesex for a considera ble number of years,. proved that the county had never been charged with any, sum of money for the repair of the bridge, while be had filled that situation ; and Mr. Joseph Nicol, who lived nearly all his' lite at Hendon, and who was a bricklayer by business, ,proved that in 1788 he was em ployed by Mr.'Garriek, the celebrated performer, who, at that time, possessed the manor, to repair the bridge. The Jury found a verdict—Guilty, with respect to the parish of Wilstien, and Not Guilty as to the pariAt of Hendon.. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Brighlon, Jan. 12. —This morning, about 50 noblemen and gentle men assembled at Stantlend, near this town, to enjoy the iliversions of the chase, with the sub scription pack of harriers. After running in 13 the death of two hares, they took the direction of Dialing. At this spot Captain Curtis ob served Master NVetherall, a fine youth 'about 14 years of age, nephew of Mr. Sergeant Runnington, mounted upon a spirited horse, with his feet in 'the straps of the stirrups. The Captain warned the boy of the danger of tiding in that manner, and requested him not to join in the sport of the field. Unfortunately, at that moment the bounds passed in full run, when the animal started of - 1 . , and in less than 10 minutes the youth was seen to lose his scat, and bang suspended by the straps. His head was knocked against the new laid flintS in a most dreadfill manner. Th►e horse finding itself ineumbered, plunged; and quickened its speed down Standen&bill, whilst the gentle men in the chase were endeavouring to - stop the career of the animal. The hounds even jnined in the pursuit, and. when the horse was stopped, actually stood at bay. We sincerely regret to add, that the youth was literally dashed to pieces, and was lifeless. This melancholy event has - oc casioned the must painful affliction,in this town. • PIZICE OF BULLION.—NeW Doubloons were yesterday at 4/., and thlver iu Bars at ss, tidl. HORRID MURDER, ARISING FROM THE FATAL EFFECTS OF EXCES. SIVE DRINKING. [Further Particulars.] MARLBOROUGH-STREET -David Evans, ajour neyman soap-maker, about 40 years of age, was brought up from St. Anne's watch-house, charged with the wilful murder of his wife, by striking her repeatedly with a poker, on Saturday night, at his lodgings in Falconbnigh -court, .Crown street, St. Anne's. '!'lie following is the eviden'ce at length, as deposed to by the several wit- nesses : • Mary Chapman stated, that she lived with her husband in a room over the prisoner, who occu pied the parlours at N 0.3, Falconburgh-court. Ott Saturday night she heard the prisoner talking loud, as if quarrelling. before 12 o'clock, anal from that. hour until 3 on Sunday morning s' e heard dreadful groans, which proceeded from the prisoner's room. She went- to a chandler's shop next morning, when it was reported to her that Lvans had murdered his wife. She observed the bed and pillow placed against the window, the curtain of the bed-room was thrown back, and there seemed much confusion. All the next day a young woman was there, and she never knew that the wife was dead until a coffin was brought in on Monday night. .Awn D smond, a most important witness, stated, that she occupies the first floor of No. 3, over the prisoner's bed-room. On Saturday night her husband came home drunk, and after hating had a few words with the prisoner, who busied himself about the street door, he threw hifriself on the_ bed with his clothes on. he pri soner used very bad words to witness after he had got into his own room. Witness waited on the stait s, and heat d him beating his wife, and her groans were loud and repeated. She alarmed the other lodgers, stating, that murder was being co►nxitted in the house ; but she could not rouse any one, and she dared not go alone. The groans of the deceased gre.v more languid. Not seeing her the next morning, she thought she might have black eyes, and, being a reserved, particular wo man, she would not like to be seen. Witness saw the prisoner the next morning wiping spots out of the floor with a wet, cloth in the tro u t parlour, and she upbraided him with ill-treating his wife. The back .parlour door, where they slept, was shut. Thera was much inquiry about the uvife in the neighbourhood, but witness did not know she was dead until Monday night, when the coffin was brought in. There was a strange woman in the prisoner's apartmenCincessantly watching the knocker of the door. Rebecca Mueelewhit, a genteel looking married woman, who occupied an apartmeot in the second floor, corroborated the two former witnesses, re lative to the groaning of the deceased until after two o'clock in the morning. It was like the moaning of a dog. She made up her mind to go down stairs twice, and she got out of bed to do Si) ; 'out she was afraid of herself and her husband, as he was a little man, although she said to him that she would pot stay in a house where murder was being committed. The noise which pi eceded the groans appeared to her like.a person knocking down shelves with a poker, and it continued as if to drown the noise. Mr Webb, constable of St. Anne's, who acted upon the information of Mr. Desmond, was sworn, -.and his testimony exhibited a horrid picture.-- Witness having beard of the suspicious circum stances, went to the prisoner's house and found him smoking. On interrogating him, he said something of three Irishmen being in his passage, and by his conversation he seemed to have been jealous of his wife,. and he acknowl e d ge d . h av i ng struck her in the mouth with his fist. Witness examined the front parlour, and he discovered the floor and the wainscot round the room besprinkled trith blood. An attempt had been made to cleanse it, but the very mouldings of the room out of reach wcte splashed with it. He could not find Hoy of t he deceased's clothes but a pair of • boots, which were bloody. lie afterwards saw the body in the coffin in the bed-room, covered over with a sheet. The cap on, the head was in a gore of blood, and a long head of hair was matted with one mass of blood, The back part of the head was be: , to atoms, so that a finger could be buried in the wounds, and no such ap pearances could have been occasioned by a fist. This room was also besprinkled with blood.— Witness took a poker from the_ fire, Which, from the appearance of blood, was no doubt the instru ment of death. The prisoner said, that the de ceased was very bad at seven o'clOck in the morn ing,. and he applied hot bricks to her feet, and that she died at ten o'clock. The prisoner re fused to give any account of the clothes, but wit ness ascertained that a man named Davis, who resided next door,-and who worked with the pri soner, near St. Giles's Church, bad them in a bundle, which the pr isoner bad conveyed to his• wife. Webb traced the bundle, and the clothes confirmed the horrid act. Some had been wash ed. The prisOner said, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Jones laid his wife out. George Gillman, a clerk, and son to the watch housekeeper, corroborated Webb, and added, that the prisoiier told him that he quarrelled with his wife because she. could not account to• bim for 2s. I OFI. out of Bs. ; that lie went from one public- house to others until he was drunk, anti that a man told him he was living with a woman not his wife. He then related about wiping the blood off his face, applying the warm bricks, &c. The pi isoncr's defence was an echo of what be had told Webb and Gillman, that Davis and him went about until he got very drunk, and that he found himself going on leaving the first hpuse. When he got home be could just remember that an Irishman struck him ; and one of the women, Desmond, told him that her husband had criminal ..... knowledge of his wife. He next spoke about the money short, applying bricks to her feet, making her tea in the night of her going to bed, and that Davis and he found her dead in the bed in the morning. The coffin, he said, was bad from NVestminster. Magistrate.—" how often did yon strike her, and how came the rooms so bloody ?" isoner.—" I suppose the blood came from my wife's bead. 1 was very tipsy, and do not remetn• ber striking her more than once." Magistrate.—" How came the blood over the poker ?" Prisoner.—" I might have struck her bead when she was lying by the fire-place, as 1 tried t° pick her up, but bring giddy, I let her fall again' I believe." The prisoner was remanded till Friday, when the undertaker and his man, and the two wotneo. who laid the deceased out, ve,ere ordered to attend. The ‘vitnesses went away to attend the Coroner's Inquest, summoned for last night. From the LONDON GAZETTE, JAN. 13 BANKRUPTS, G. A. Wigney and G. Seymour, Chichester, grocers, to or render Jan. 26, 27, Feb. 24, at the Anchor Inn, Chichester , . Attorney, Mr. flume, Holbhrn•court, Gray's Inn. W. Hewlett, Soilwell, Gloucestershire,. farmer, Jan. 27,: 21 4 Feb. 24, at the White Lion, Bristol. Atturnies, Messrs• Poole and Greenfield, Gray's Inn-square. H. Burgess, Birmingham, factor, Feb. 2,3, 23, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Attorney, - Mr. Tooke, HulbOW court, Gray's Inn. F. Turner, Doncaster, cordwainer, Jan. 20, 22, Feb. 24, a t • the Guildhall, Doncaster. Attorney, Mr. King, Castle';, street. J. Oliver, Newington-causeway, cordwa;nef, Jan. 7 17, 1/ -*' .: Feb. 24, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Castle, Cursitor'„ street. D. Mickley and.W. S. Hall, Brooke-street, Holborn, work', ing goldsmiths, Jan. 20, 24, Feb. 24, - at Guildhall. Attol7 . ney, Mr.'laylor, Fietd-conrt, Gray's Inn. D. Williams, Carmarthen, currier, Jar. 21, 22, Feb 24, ak the Green Dragon Inn, Hereford. Attornies, Messrs' Dax and Co., Doughty-street.' T. Redmayne, Preston, Lancashire, linen-draper, Jan. ego . 80, Feb. 24, at the Mitre Inn, Preston. Attorney, Blakelock, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-street. DIVIDENDS. Feb. 14, G. Children, Touhridge, banker—Feb. 3, M. an„, (l , J. Barlow, Barthol omew - c l ose , stone - masons—Feh. 3, "1. Harper and J. Whinnie, Camperdown-house, suuw's field s ' hlaching-manufacturers—Jan. 27, E. Burr, Chatham, ttirb°l - 21, W. Newcombe, Vine-street, 11 c4rninsterf monev-scrivener—Feb 5, M. Reader, Bristol, fancy-dres s ' maker—Feb. 4, R. Wright, Wareham, - Dorsetsli , re, oierecr -^- Feb. 10, Storr, and IL C. Young, Kingston-ui_,,o-I! ,11 . merchants—Feb. 17, W. Ritchie, Fin bury-sq dare, merchant'' Feb. 3, P. and W. Giblett, New Bond-street, butchers -- Feb. It, P. Minton, Bristol, - rictualler—reb. 7, H. Lae , Benhall, Suffolk, farmer—Feb. 6, .J. and 3. Fletcher, Liver , pool, ship-chandlers--Feb. 4, G. IVall, North Shields, slur builder—Feb. 6, T. Harding, Pont Nlorlais, Glamorganshire o linett-draper—Feb. 10, J. B. Rose, Sheerness, upholder--' Feb. 24, W. ,Jacks, Bristol, merchant—Fcb. 10, C. Stokes zoo/ .1. H. Schneider, sett. Birmingham,' leacher.-sellers—Feb. 3 4 R. Nlorton Lucas-strret, Connnercial-road, mas t e r mariner :-- Feb. 3, C: ' R. Anderson, W. Satidersen; and .1. Glidden, A ie stinfriars, merchants. CERTIFICATES, Feb. 3. A. Samuda, Bury-street, St.. Mary-axe, broker , —G. 14 * Thurkle, New-street-square, Fetter-lane, Wine-merchant - L,'. Booth, Hull-bridge, Yorkshire, merchant—J. Bru° l4 j Huddersfield, bqokseller---G. Pothury, Sidmooth, Deca P. Y, shire, upholsterer--J. LV. Blaclimore, TJpottery, Devonshir e ,' , banker--E. Fletcher, jun. Liverpool, iron-founcler—/). 0 ‘77 v onshire, Old-street, jeweller. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. • J. Tisdall and C. Posten, Coal-yard, Drury-lane, • drr salters and J. Jones, and J. Lawrence, Ciierleon, Morr montlishire, farmers-4. frith, S. Povell, and J. Metford' Bristol, hat-manufacturer,—T.G et man and T. Petty, Presto s ' Lancashire, cotton-ma n o f,*ct urers—T. Browning, S. Reaven• and J. Fryer, N..wil ham Cilonerstersitite; irwrniasters--R. att 4 J. Menzies, Carmarthen, dealers is table-linen —W. Smith and T. onipe, wigan, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturers- - , C. F. Wittwer and - I. Sampson, Dover, boottnakers , --O r Young and 'P. Smith, Harp-lane,. Thames-street, sitip-ag,o o —T,Hope and H. Park, flebden-bridig•e, Yorkshire, rnachiPe' matters--E. Sharp a n d 1. Clioat, Briglithelmslune, cutters.. '1 • • StioCKING ACCIDENT. —Friday night a tar t of fifty disbanded soldi ers , f rom t h e iSth Orisu,i: regiment of foot, embarked onboard of - AleF,sr 9 - foils and Higginton's lug;-boots, to go troth Paddington to Liverpool, where they were .t° embark tor Ireland. The boat being Lela . ye(' sc the second .bridge, about. ten or t‘reli.;e of the party got out, and kvent - to a public-ho;)9e, wheo they drank a ci4utity of spirituous liquors, (O il they .were in a state of intoxication. The al'!rl being given th at t h e boat Was going, they rosi , te our in a hurry ; and in their attempt to get in/ seven or eight of the party fell into the w ater , • thinking they had ground to run over (It bei' ll " _ about nine o ' c l oc k at n i g h t, and quite d•itk)•---, With much difficultylour were got out immed" ately, and two shortly atterwards, appareillir quite de a d ; b ut b y. surg i ca l assistance, and the means recommended by the Royal Humane SO' ciety, they were restored. The drags were set t° . work, and in little mote than halt an hour the body of another was picked up ; but all mewls to restore animation provedineffectaal. The deal body lies at the Red Lion public-house COURSE OF EXCHANGEjtitsDAY, JAN. 13. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight Amstei dam - Ditto, at Sight ll 6 • Vs. Rotterdam Antwerp . ' ' l.l . 1i Ex. N't'l nei [iamb argil 34 4 2 tl6. Al tona 34 5 2t '7 - • Paris, 3 Day's date 24 50 i u ‘' 13ouideaux, dittO . 24 50 • . Flank foam' the Main , Madrid Cadiz z i it I I! ac ( ' t il l i is . e s : 13ilboa - sa • . Seville Gibraltar Leghorn ' • Genoa... 47 —Venice, Ital. Lir. 25 Slalta . ... —49h- 7 —Naples .......... 42i Palermo Lisbon Oporto.. V ........ 8 .. Rio Janeiro • 9' Dub1in......... R.. - ... C or k__ 81 per co,t. ei . Agiu of the Bank on Holland.... 2 p4:r Cent. , . Portugal Gold, in C o i n 1 .4 0 C per ar• Foreign Gold, in B ars • 4 O . 6 New Doubloons ....... . . , .., New Dollars p 5 al • Silver, in 8ar5..... MARRIED. On the 29th of last December, at linaresbrook Churcli , Mr. Geo. Wright, miniature painter, to Miss S. Smith, both of Harrowgate. Yesterday, at Stepney Church, by the Rev. G. Peche, t he Rev. J. Stock, 13. A. of Maidstone, to Sophia Tbomson, 01 Poplar. DIED. On Saturday last, of the gout in his stomach, Lieutenant - General Floyd, Colonel of the Bth Dragoons, and Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury. 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